salticidae
spiders. jumping spiders.
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Photo reblogged from I Blow My Money On Comics and Ice Cream
A regal female watches over her brood of spiderlings
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Photo reblogged from Cat Bountry vs. Earth
Me vs. Arachnophobia Chapter 906
So, somebody asked one of my favorite tumblr’s to stop tagging spiders with “adorable” and they agreed.
I don’t need to tell anyone that this makes me rage inside. As I’ve ranted about extensively, no animal should be segregated over an unnatural human flaw. If you’re so terrified of spiders you can’t stand to even see a picture of them, that only means you need to see more pictures of them. No, not because I want you to be scared, but because sooner or later you will become less scared, and everybody in the world deserves that, no matter what it is that scares them or to what degree of severity. Even the most DEBILITATING possible cases of arachnophobia ever recorded have been cured - and I mean cured, completely - through nothing more than exposure. Just seeing more spiders, bit by bit, automatically reduced the anxiety patients felt towards them. Eventually they went from panic attacks at the very word “spider” to comfortably holding live tarantulas. It’s been done time and time again, whenever someone felt that their fear was serious enough to seek help.
You probably aren’t even as afraid as those people, so why give up and give in by avoiding even harmless little internet pictures? You WILL get used to images of spiders over time if you keep looking at them. That’s a tested fact. And once you’re at least capable of looking at them there’s nowhere else to go but to develop an active appreciation for them, as all living things deserve.
Block me or unfollow me if you must, but I vow to ensure that the “adorable” tag - among others - will have spiders in it every week that I’m both alive and have a tumblr.
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Before being mature enough to mate, females of P. labiata and also P. schultzi mimic adult females to attract males as prey.
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A test in a deliberately artificial environment explored P. labiata′s ability to solve a novel problem by trial and error. A little island was set up in the middle of a miniature atoll, and the space between with them was filled with water. The gap was too wide for the spiders to jump all the way, and the spiders’ options were to leap and then swim or to swim only. The testers encouraged some specimens by using a small scoop to make waves toward the atoll when the spiders chose the option the testers preferred (leap and then swim for some spiders, and swim only for others), and discouraged some specimens by making waves back toward the island when the spiders chose the option the testers did not want – in other words, the testers “rewarded” one group for “successful” behaviour and “penalised” the other group for “unwanted” behaviour.[17]:284–286 Specimens from Sagada almost always repeated the first option they tried, even when that was unsuccessful. When specimens from Los Baños were unsuccessful the first time, about three quarters switched to the other option, irrespective of whether the first attempt was by leaping and then swimming or by swimming only.[17]:287–288
